Chapter 93

• The three anchor points held — but only barely, and only because Kael, Angelica, and the five teams were burning through every resource they had to keep them standing.
• From the Silent Meridian, Kael could feel the other two battlefields through the Nexus connection — a faint pulse from Angelica's golden fire holding the Verdant Reach anchor, and the more erratic signal from Team Gamma's position in the Ashen Corridor, where Zara was fighting to protect an anchor point that kept trying to not exist.
• The First had not committed their full force to any single point. That was the pattern Zareth had warned of — they didn't charge. They pressed, like water finding cracks in stone, testing every surface simultaneously, making it impossible to know where to reinforce until the crack had become a breach.